Llywydd, with this new Government comes new duties and, under the Legislation (Wales) Act of 2019, we must prepare a programme to improve the accessibility of Welsh law. I will lay the full programme in the autumn, but I'm pleased to announce that we will introduce our first consolidation Bill this year, bringing together legislation relating to the historic environment. This legislation, much of which is very old, has become increasingly convoluted and can present owners of listed buildings or scheduled monuments with a bewildering challenge that sometimes confounds even legal professionals. The Bill will create distinct, fully bilingual legislation for Wales that is as accessible as possible, and we look forward to working with the Senedd to take this Bill through the new scrutiny process introduced under Standing Order 26C.

Llywydd, in the coming year, we will also fulfil a number of aims from our programme for government through subordinate legislation. This will include making 20 mph the default speed limit in residential areas and banning pavement parking wherever possible.

As I said, we'll bring forward a substantial package of implementing legislation for major Acts passed in the last Senedd, so we will make legislation to support schools and teachers to deliver our radical changes to the curriculum for Wales and a more equitable person-centred system for supporting learners up to the age of 25 with additional learning needs.

We will implement the renting homes Act, a wholesale change to the law governing residential tenancies in Wales. This will improve the right and security of people living in the rented housing sector, prevent retaliatory eviction, ensure dwellings are fit for human habitation, and require that tenants are given written contracts. And we will also bring into effect the provisions of the local government and elections Act ahead of next year's local elections, including getting corporate joint committees up and running, and this will ensure that local members can make decisions together about important local government services for the benefit of citizens and communities in their regions. The Government is committed to reforming local government elections, to reduce the democratic deficit, and we want to see more people registered and more people voting. To deliver this, we will publish a set of principles for electoral reform and begin an ambitious programme of innovations for the 2022 and the 2026 elections. We look forward to working in partnership with local government to deliver a suite of changes both legislative and non-legislative that will demonstrate the value we place on democracy and local government in Wales.

So, this is our programme for the coming year, but our programme for government sets out longer term ambitions requiring legislation. These include abolishing the use of more commonly littered single-use plastics, bringing forward our clean air Act, and addressing building safety to ensure another Grenfell never happens. We will respond to and address the findings and recommendations of the Law Commission's recent review of the outdated framework for managing coal tips. However, as we work with our stakeholders in a spirit of social partnership and co-production to get our legislation right, I do not want to set specific timetables at this point, and, as we have seen in the last year, we never know what might come along and require us to reshape our plans.

Llywydd, our legislative programme does not exist in a vacuum. More than 20 proposals for UK Bills in the Queen's Speech in May are likely to contain provisions relating to devolved areas, which will require this Government and Senedd's consideration. Some, like the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill, and the procurement Bill, clearly overlap with proposals I've announced today. We now have to negotiate our way through new restrictions and uncertainties on our powers arising from the internal market Act and deal with a Government that pays little regard to the role of this Senedd and the Sewel convention—something we saw recently as it took a Bill to Royal Assent without waiting for this legislature’s consent because that didn't suit its timetable. But, Llywydd, this will not distract us from delivering our distinctly Welsh programme, founded on our distinctive Welsh values, which I commend to Members today.